The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope

A video by ESO showing the OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope) in motion. The OWL is a 60m diameter telescope planned to be built in Chile, with a focal length of 175 metres, completion some time between 2017 and 2019). Source- http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/index_3.html More info- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• european
• southern
• observatory
• large
• telescope
• chile
• space
• extraterrestrial

[Wonda9]

Next i believe is OLT, obnoxiously large telescope, followed later by RLT, Redundantly Large Telescope, and finally, IJRFB, It's just really f---ing big!

[BrunoTheQuestionable]

I'm overwhelmed :)

[Jules7892]

I own over 6 solid Telescopes,Reflectors Parabolic,Refractors Achromatic & Apochromatic,Schmidt-Telescope­s 2 of them C8 and C11, and a 127mm. Aperture Dmitry Maksutov. What I cannot understand about this Atacama, CHILE , European-Space-Observatory Telescope is that it appears to have intertwining Truss-Vanes across the front of the Parabolic Primary Mirrors. Perhaps its the angle which the Video Camera has captured the Telescope Frames??

[ILoveDominikaDetko]

Why do they build now a much smaller Telescope ? Are they Carzy ? 60m diameter its a Joke or Not? This is just a waste of Time , Money Recources & waste of achieving more Knowledge. The Telescope should be design and planned with a diameter of 300 - 500 Meters, we are not living in Stoneage! The Buget is much to small, why is there no money? 1200 millions of Euros this is by far not enough, you do not get a Telescope for that little money! No Need, this is just more then sad, its stupid.

[sbergman27]

@bladmand My views on science funding have changed over the decades, moving from "We just need to get the public to spend more money!" to "Public funding attitudes seem quite immutable. Best make the most of the pittance offered". If a small compromise is the difference between having something & having nothing for years, I'll take "something". Exoplanet imaging is cool & all. But I'm more interested in the planets' spectra. And that's going to require JWST, anyway. Lotsa eggs in *that* basket!

[bladmand]

@sbergman27

They just recently downsized ELT from 42" to 39,6". This will impact it's ability to image exoplanets.

JWST was a tragedy of faulty budgetting, goverment inefficiency and congress villainy. :)

[sbergman27]

@bladmand ELT is still on the way. Sometimes it makes sense to advance incrementally and not to be *too* ambitious. For example, the JWST project is very ambitious, indeed. And 14 years into the plan, what science have we to show for it? Nothing. What science is expected from it over the next 7 years? None. Sometimes an attainable "less" better than a nearly unattainable "more".

[andrespereyda]

cheeze musik

[bladmand]

Shame it got cancelled.

[jackmarsilva]

CGI wanna be....

[berzu21]

next should be - Are You Fucking Kidding Me Large Telescope.

[mnpd007]

This video cartoon still up? The OWL telescope was cancelled a long time ago, and never got past the conceptual stage. The money wasn't there, and it was hard to get financing since it couldn't be proven that such a large telescope could be built or even work properly if it did come together. The technology to build such an instrument simply doesn't exist.